报告时间：12月5日 周二  下午3:00

报告地点：实验室一楼会议室

报告人：郑炜 （Cavendish Laboratory,Cambridge）

报告题目： Particle transport in Dynamical Optical lattices

报告摘要：

    One of the most interesting directions of research in coherent quantum systems concerns the collective dynamics of coupled atom-photon ensembles. Coupling cold atoms even to a single cavity mode can dramatically change the steady state of the atomic gas and lead to interesting nonequilibrium dynamics. 

    In this talk, I will introduce our recent work on particle transport in dynamical optical lattices. I will first talk about the dynamics of fermions in an optical lattice with cavity induced hopping. For an infinite lattice, we find a superradiant phase with an infinitesimal pumping threshold which induces a directed particle flow. We explore the fate of this flow in a finite lattice with boundaries, studying the nonequilibrium dynamics including fluctuation effects. The short-time dynamics is dominated by superradiance, while the long-time behavior is governed by cavity fluctuations. We show that the steady state in the finite lattice is not unique and can be understood in terms of coherent Bosonic excitations above a Fermi surface in real space. 

    Second I will discuss a cavity-induced dynamical optical lattice, in which the dynamical lattice is chosen to have a period that is incommensurate with that of an underlying static lattice. This dynamical lattice can be regarded as a dynamical version of the Aubry-Andr??e model, which can cause localization of single-particle wave functions. We show that atomic wave packets in this dynamical lattice generically spread via anomalous diffusion, which can be tuned between super-diffusive and sub-diffusive regimes. To understand this anomalous diffusion, we use the quantum trajectory picture to map the dynamics into a Le'vy walk with rests.

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